What are folks thoughts on the election result in Leigh?
BTW - Labour have held this seat since 1922.

Fantastic! Steptoe and his Trotskyite cult followers can scuttle back into the shadows. Jo Platt didn’t listen to her constituents and rightly paid the price.

One word - Brexit

Warrington South where I live has also turned blue. Why have a policy undermining Brexit and thinking you have a realistic chance of winning the Election ? Bloody clueless !

I am normally Labour through and through but thank God the Dinosaur has gone !!

Mods asleep ?

This is an RL forum

Thanks for that Satan.



BTW - If the Mods wish to remove this thread,could you please put it in a sticky? My apologies for those remoaners affected.

have you complained about the man utd ladies thread?

we all know who the oaf is on this forum are you in his party

I don't...spill.

So we are not playing in blue then.

'Honest Boris' and his Eton chummies took the out of Northern people by calling them 'Workington Man', a step up from Neanderthals in the evolutionary ladder but far, far below 'Eton Man' - and 'Workington Man' still votes them in hahaha. That's like someone being hit with a stick and then asking to be hit even harder.

Boris and his chummies are laughing into their caviar and brandy tonight at how easy it is to fool 'Workington Man'. They planned this election back in 2015 to divert attention away from austerity. Blame the 'bloody immigrants', ally with UKIP and introduce BREXIT. For the next 3 years create chaos and division. Blame the opposition and 'Hey Presto!' - 'Workington Man' comes up Trumps (pardon the pun on Boris' new master). Well at least 'Workington Man' will be able to get voluntary work in the Food Bank growth industry.

On working class men, Honest Boris quoted, "likely to be drunk, criminal, aimless, feckless and hopeless". Thatcher systematically destroyed Leigh and the miners. Churchill called miners 'worms in the earth'. Do you really think this ruling class give a toss about 'Workington Man' They will take great pleasure in erasing 'Workington Man' completely. Well, at least 'Workington Man' has 5 years to contemplate how Honest Boris pi$$ed all over him.

I take it your not a fan of the Tories then





The result says more about Corbyn and co TBH - they have been a disaster and completely mis read the feeling of the British public

And here was me, thinking 'WYSI' was a staunch 'Blue'!

Incredible, isn't it, how much the political parties can misjudge the mood of areas/towns. Brexit was what caused this election, yet the Lib Dems chose to go against the majority view on Brexit, and paid the price. Labour couldn't make up their mind, and paid the price. The Conservatives correctly read the mood of the Northern towns, and reaped the rewards.

Who the heck advises Labour & the Lib Dems? Or did their leaderships choose to completely ignore the advice about Brexit. Lessons to be learned for both of them, and Boris could do well to heed his own stated gratitude, at thousands of voters "lending" him their votes.

So, could we please have a blue 'alternative' strip?

Now now Alan, this is a perfect post until your last line......We'll stick to red & white thank you very much.You can have a blue away one at best.

I thought Leigh would be switching to playing Union now.

Correct..

Put your name forward for mod if it bothers you so much..
Then again for a town that has been predominantly Labour for near 100 years,could now carry consequences that changes was has been.

Technically it involves Rugby League.

looks like your talking to yourself alone on this forum

not surprising as the majority of posters have now disappeared I wonder why

I can understand your disturbance. no chance now of a rise for you minimum wage nighchmen. only explanation for your mysterious posting times

stay real close to the brazier tonight now

That's what I meant by 'alternative' kit, Cokey.

You obviously only read what you want to read.

Maybe no rise, but he should be entitled to at least time and a half, for night shift work, surely?

A pit town voting for the Tories after Thatcher destroyed their industry. And you believe they will look after a working class town like Leigh. Lol.

And there is also this information.......


160 mines were closed under Thatcher’s time in office (1979–1990) Approx 11 years

290 were closed under Harold Wilson’s premierships alone (1965–1969 1974–1975) Approx 10 years

The more important detail is the number of deep pits closed, disregarding small mines, sometimes privately owned

Labour in total closed 371 deep pits.

Clement Atlee closed 101 in the early days after nationalisation

Harold Wilson closed 235 between 1964 and 1970 and 18 in the years after the miners strike during Heath’s term in office

James Callaghan continued the policy of supporting the NUM by closing just 4 mines in 1977- 1979

Blair closed 10 in 10 years and Brown 1.

Thatcher closed 115 deep pits.

MacMillan closed the most: 246 during the times that “we never had it so good” 1957- 1963 Previously Churchill had closed 78 and Eden 35. There was little protest at mine closures during this time or throughout Wilson’s time in office.

Heath closed 24 pits but disputes over pay and 2 miner’s strikes resulted in him losing power when he called a general election hoping to gain popular support in refusing to agree to the miner’s claims. This gave the NUM the impression that they held a great deal of political influence.

Although the number on mines closed by Thatcher was just marginally more than Atlee it was a much greater percentage of mines remaining. Cheap imports oil and nuclear power had made British coal less profitable and the militant miner’s union had put politics before production. The decline continued under Major with 55 pits closed and the last deep pit in Britain shut down in December 2015 due to lack of orders. By 2025 it is planned there will be no coal fired power stations left in the UK.

Will be interesting to see Grundy's voting record in 12 months time.

Jo Platt was s member of the Shadow cabinet, so obviously a Corbynite and a self confessed remoaner. So she got her just deserts managing to lose a 13,000 majority built up by Andy Burnham. The writing was on the wall the Saturday before the election after a daily mail poll showed the Tories at 40% to Labour 39 %. On Bradshawgate you couldn’t move for Labour canvassers for the first time ever!!